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Katie Grant: Better a sassy Storm than a plain old Jane

Everybody complains that the world is becoming more and more bland, yet when a family shows some wild and extravagant imaginative flair, they are stamped on from a great height.

So come on you killjoys, instead of getting all sanctimonious, let’s hear it for one-year-old Sonneywolferine Hart, his sister Storm Cristal Brandy Tanisha Linda Genevieve Saffron Bronwen and their brother Troy.

Let us offer our condolences to their brother, plain Joe, who is the loser here. If his siblings stand out in Methilhill, Fife, why shouldn’t he?

There was general merriment, along with a little pious clucking, when the general registrar for Scotland revealed last year’s babies’ names. But then it is a subject that always causes trouble.

My family’s names are the biggest jumble you can imagine. It’s not our first names that are a pest — leastwise not all of them, although I have a niece called Frideswide (her